by CoastView | Feb 11, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Headlands, Natural History
Cape Lewis is a promontory with a summit elevation of 1,222 feet (372 m) with steep sea cliffs located between Ukinyak Creek to the north and Kiliktakgot Creek to the south, 11 miles (18 km) south of Cape Lisburne on the Lisburne Peninsula, about 107 miles (172 km)...
by CoastView | Feb 10, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, February 2025, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Dry Strait is a tidal channel of the Stikine Flats, part of the Stikine River delta separating Mitkof Island to the west from Dry Island to the east in the Stikine-LeConte Wilderness, about 21 miles (34 km) southeast of Petersburg and 11 miles (18 km) north-northwest...
by CoastView | Feb 9, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Mines, Parks
Takli Island is situated in Amalik Bay, between Cape Ilktugitak to the southwest and Cape Atushagvik to the northeast, on the Shelikof Strait coast of the Alaska Peninsula in Katmai National Park and Preserve, about 154 miles (248 km) southwest of Homer and 81 miles...
by CoastView | Feb 8, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, February 2025, Historical, Mines, Rivers, Shelter Cabins
Pitmegea River starts from an elevation of about 1,300 feet (396 m) in the De Long Mountains of the western Brooks Range, and flows generally northwest for 37 miles (60 km), draining a watershed of about 351,053 acres (142,066 ha), to Cape Sabine on the Chukchi Sea...
by CoastView | Feb 6, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, February 2025, Glaciers, Land Use, Parks
James Lagoon is a drowned cirque basin about 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide and partially enclosed by the remains of a terminal moraine, situated on the western shore of McCarty Fjord in Kenai Fjords National Park, about 51 miles (82 km) southwest of Seward and 40 miles (64...
by CoastView | Feb 5, 2025 | 2025, Alaska, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, February 2025, Historical, Land Use, Mines, Rivers
Juneau is the Alaska state capital situated at the mouth of Gold Creek on Gastineau Channel, about 93 miles (150 km) northeast of Sitka and 87 miles (140 km) south-southeast of Skagway, Alaska. The community originated in 1880 as a mining camp called...
